When a politician throws a party, all the city roads lead to that place and the city will be completely blocked with traffic jams. Especially when a person like KVP is the host. For the starters KVP Ramachandra Rao is also known as the Chief Minister’s right hand. It’s like if you want to get any work done by the Chief Minister, contact KVP. Such is the closeness between the two.

Saturday evening demonstrated to the city who is the real mover and shaker of Hyderabad. Traffic was completely thrown out of gear on the Begumpet road as VVIPs and VIPs of the city descended in droves to attend the dinner party of the son of K V P Ramachandra Rao who on paper is merely a Rajya Sabha MP.

The party was hosted by industrialist K Raghurama Krishnam Raju whose daughter KVP’s son Ujjawal will marry, but anybody who is anybody in the power matrix was in attendance. This included not only the chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy who is a close friend of KVP but also opposition leaders like Chiranjeevi, CPM’s B V Raghavalu and CPI’s K Narayana.

According to a senior bureaucrat, “KVP is the most powerful guy in the state after the chief minister. In fact, as advisor to the chief minister, YSR often asks many to come to him through KVP. So for VVIPs and VIPs it was mandatory to mark attendance at the party that they had been invited to. It was like KVP’s wish was their command”.

On Sunday evening, KVP threw another party to mark the happy occasion, but this was only for the proliferating media of Hyderabad and was held in another hotel across the road. The engagement ceremony a low profile event had happened on Friday evening at another five star hotel.